If we're going to sit around and blame BP we had better dang sure sit around and blame the environmentalists who have systematically restricted drilling on land and in shallow water to the point where the only place they can drill wells is in deep water where everything is more problematic. We as a society need oil. That need isn't going to go away overnight no matter what politicians might say. Why we're so willing to deny our own access to our own oil and then sit around and complain about foreign oil is beyond me.
Lets also not forget that the Obama administration has no real interest in helping mitigate the effects because they want to make sure the majority of the public is against drilling by allow it to get as bad as possible. Just ask Bobby Jindal. The feds won't let them
build barrier islands to protect the real coastline. Or ask Kevin Costner who can't deploy his fleet of
fancy oil water separating machines because of gov't red tape. Of course the media is there doing their job hyping it up the oil spill like it's the end of the world.
